Hello replay viewers, bonus bonus live stream this evening. Let's see who tunes in. Got an hour to kill. I gotta kill an hour. I gotta somehow manage to kill an hour of time. So I said to myself, I have battery. I have battery. I could live stream for an hour and talk to y'all. Let's see who tunes in. Oh, cold out here. Thank goodness I have procured a hoodie, a thing they call a hoodie. So you know what happens with YouTube. See, if you go on too many times on YouTube, notifications don't go out. Can I hit that? That work? Can I share? Well, it wants to do that. Doesn't want to do that on Facebook. I want to do that. Also, this guard x out. Ah, did they update this thing? I think we updated it. It looks different. Who's tuning in? Who's watching? Tell me where you're watching from. Let me give you a shout-out. We're here on the Coney Island boardwalk. Good to see Wilbs. I gotta kill an hour of time here. I get to go do some work in the Coney Island.

circus sideshow museum. I gotta put holes in the wall. Good to see you, Jessica. Good to see you, Don. Candy cooking. Good to see you. Good to see you, Rose. Good to see you, Adam out there in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I want to go to Halifax, Nova Scotia sometime. But welcome to a very quiet Coney Island. I could just I could go a couple of hundred yards down that when there's lots of loud Puerto Rican music down there. Aaliyah Khan out there in Riverside, California. Hello. And Lorenzo out there in San Antonio. Good to see you. You're looking at the parachute. We're back again, John. I gotta kill an hour of time, John. I gotta kill an hour of time. I have to kill an hour out here in Coney Island. So, so uh yeah, I said to myself, what can I do to kill an hour? Oh yeah, that's right, a livestream. So I'll live stream a little bit for you guys until seven uh seven o'clock ish. It's

now it's cold. Jessica, now it's cold. I got my hands in my pocket. I might have to break out the livestream glove. I do bring just one glove with me to livestream a quick paddle out to see maybe a pretty nice spot to kill an hour. It's very relaxing on here. Brandon just had a slice of pizza from Pizza on the Run. If anyone's been out to Coney and remember that place. Cool transition you saw at the Park Slope stream. Awesome. I'm glad you enjoyed that, Ed. Welcome on into the show. Just out here chillin', chillin' like Bob Dylan. But we're going to do a more comprehensive series of livestreams from Diker Heights and Bay Ridge in the coming weeks. Tomorrow, I think we're going to be back in Manhattan, and we're going to see a concert on a fire escape. You're getting pizza. Awesome, Adam. It's very nice out here right now. It's very nice. Something I've got a couple of people flying drones out here right now.

so if you hear a buzz over my head, so there's some guys flying drones, no doubt getting beautiful, beautiful, beautiful shots of this thing that we're looking at, the steeplechase parachute jump. It's 8,000 LEDs are turned on, and it says Happy Hanukkah. And there go the dreidels, they go the dreidels, people, the dreidels. Probably pizza, I've never had before. Maybe I've had pizza in Toronto, and it was... it was not... it wasn't that bad. Donair pizza, donut little French-inspired pizza there, little French Canadian-inspired pizza there. I had pizza in Toronto, it was pretty good. The lighting is great to film. Did it ever do anything? Greenwood Cemetery. You know, I tried to stream out there a few years ago, and unfortunately, I couldn't get a PR. Well, there's two spots I want to stream from. So there's a statue that salutes the Statue of Liberty, and for some reason, around that spot, I

couldn't get a signal for the life of me, and then there's another grave that it's a statue that looks out, and in the wintertime, you could actually see Coney Island, and unfortunately, there the signal was horrible also, but in other spots, it's really good. So, I'm going to try to live stream from Greenwood sometime in the near future. Sometime in the near future, we'll figure it out. I want to stream so much in Greenwood too because you have those statues, you have a couple of the really great monuments, and then, of course, a little Quaker parrots. You can't go wrong with the Quaker parrots, those little green little parrots that they're smaller than pigeons, and they box, they fight, they go. Did they update Prism Live? I think they updated Prism Live. The thing looks a little different. You worked in the store, worked in the next-door store for years, took walks there. Yeah, literally next door. That's awesome. What did you work in?

the uh, the florist in that beautiful vintage building. How about a riverside park walk? We actually did that not that long ago, and I might do it again tomorrow. Uh, last Saturday, we kind of did that. I thought I was drilling holes too, Jim, but the great Patrick of Coney Island, USA, is uh, he's held up in the Bronx, and he's rushing down here because he had to pick up some equipment. So, I have to kill an hour of time now. You and Ariel are, me and Ariel, good friends. I wouldn't call us good friends, but I mean, I streamed with him a few years, about three years ago. I streamed with Ariel. He's good people. He's a good streamer. He used to watch the parrots from your roof of your building on the bus depot. Nice, yeah, they are redoing it, thank God. You know, that building was going to be uh, that little greenhouse crusty from Greenwood Cemetery was gonna be destroyed at one point, but luckily

I'm pretty sure it's landmark. It's not landmark, but if it's not landmark, it's definitely saved. [Music] New ride or can't see new ride pilings. New ride pilings. The only action that happened in Coney Island this year. Those pilings where the water flume intertwined with the family coaster will stand. How tall is this UFO thing? So, this is the steeplechase parachute jump, a relic from a 1939-1940 world's fair. She stands at 285 feet tall, and she is adorned in over 8,000 LED lights. Soon as this coveted crap is over, that's right, gonna come out here for 14 days. I'm gonna have some fun. Whelps, there we go. The party never stops here on the boardwalk. Hey, DJ Lopez at the DJ Lopez. What [Music] literally the only normal thing on the boardwalk all year. I would go to the brewery with the brewery just closed the baby closet at six o'clock.

I need a beer in a freak bar too. The view from the bus depot roof was spectacular. Awesome. Oh, you're in the gleep, the Jackie Gleason bus depot. Now I know what you're talking about, the Jackie Cleese and busty over there on 38th Street. I want to say in fifth. Yeah, I got that. We got the tap is here. The tapper is still here. So this used to be a ride. This used to be a parachute jump ride. It operated in as a ride until 1964. But there was an evil man. His name was Fred Trump. Yes, father of the Donald. And he wanted to build Miami-style condos on this lot. But he never got the zone change. So he was such a cheapskate. He didn't want to spend the money to demolish this thing. So he just left it standing. And it's been here ever since. But now it's more of like just lights, you know. Doesn't really actually do anything other than

inspire us actually counts down our New Year's ceremonies. We usually have some fireworks out here on New Year's, and uh, yeah, there are some great clips of the parachute jump in operation. They're there. What's his name? Coney ist, the uh, the great writer, author of Coney Island Lost and Found, Charles Denson. Uh, he actually has a video on YouTube of him climbing it. 36th Street, retired. Nice, yeah, 36, yeah, sorry, 36 at the Jackie Gleason Depot. To the moon, Alice. To the moon. Am I doing any other streaming tonight? No, I think right now this last 50 minutes is going to be it. I think I'm going to be on stream for about another, for about until seven o'clock, and then I gotta get to work. Uh, earlier today we walked pretty much almost the entire boardwalk, uh, and we watched, we caught a really nice sunset earlier this evening. Used to work in the old trolley trolley barn. Nice. You know the world's largest trolley barn is in, is in

is in um sunset park and it's on 60th street and I never knew that. I never knew. Like, I found it out fairly recently. It's the world's largest trolley bar. It's like six levels tall. So, try to go up six levels in this building. Now, obviously, the building doesn't hold trolleys anymore. There's actually a factory in there now. But the building, the whole building and the framing and all the old signage is still on the building. Kind of amazing. If you ever go to, if you ever go to the NYU Langone Hospital, us South Brooklyn, Southern Brooklynites call it Lutheran Medical Center. That's where I was born. Yeah, right down the block, couple blocks away from Lutheran. Happy Hanukkah. COVID broke your heart, yours. I know. I was looking forward for, I was looking forward to that too, Wills. But you know what? When we get together, it will be all the more sweeter. Trust me on that. It will be all the more sweeter. Let's

see, I think our drone flyers are here in the parking lot. Yes, they are. They're right here. Oh, they knocked down the eight. They knocked down the Charlie Barton 86 and open the Gleason deep. Oh, so the Gleason depots see 86. I'm six years old when that happens, so that makes sense because I only remember it being the Jackie Gleason depot. So, here are drone flyers, and then here's our big empty park. So, where I'm walking right now, if so, if you've ever been to Steeple, if you're a kid in the 50s and in the 60s, and you ever visited Steeplechase Park, roughly where the stadium is today, this is where the Pavilion of Fun would have been. The Pavilion of Fun was a massive kind of barn-like building where you had lots of little kiddie rides in there, but more importantly, it was your entrance to get into the Steeplechase ride. Steeplechase ride.

with these big iron horses that actually went around inside, outside, and around the pavilion of fun. So, kind of where I'm standing would have been maybe where the tracks would have been for their ride, right? You remember that as a youngster. But, of course, when you got off the steeplechase ride, that's when the real fun began because then you ended up becoming part of performance. You became part of performance art in a place called the blowhole theater. And what happened was that as you got off the steeplechase ride, you ended up on a stage. And this stage would blow up your girlfriend's skirt or somebody would hit you with an electric pr cow prod. You had the funny wacky stairs. You had all these little obstacles that you had to get around. And you were on stage in front of people who were just on that stage that you're on now. And these, these perform, oh, we gotta, this guy's hearing me and he's, yeah, not gonna harm you or nothing. And you're screaming out like crazy.

anyway, yeah, I wanted to show you guys the more the 911 memorial there, but there seems to be a guy who has taken up housing over there. Anyway, Juan Kaylo, welcome Kyla, Nina, and your little daughters. Love my videos. Good to see you. Greetings from Argentina. Welcome. I wouldn't recommend watching how young are they because I wouldn't consider myself. I wouldn't consider this a kids channel, you know. We have a few different organizations, Wilbs, that are keeping Coney Island alive and saving our history, but a lot of history, unfortunately, is either burned down or just doesn't exist anymore. Good to see Arlene. Welcome back. I was hoping for this guy to do donuts. Good to see you, Canex. Welcome. But now it's sick. So getting back to the steeplechase and the blowhole theater, you know, it was so popular. It was actually New York City's longest-running show for a time. It was like it ran for like almost 70 years, but

the other thing was, you know, people will be so entertained. People will get so entertained by other people that they had to dim the lights on the stage so that a new set of people can come through and watch the blowhole theater. So, just got home from Coney. You were out here in Coney today. Awesome. Moon's bright now. Clouds have cleared, and it's gotten nice out here. Good to see you out there and tell your ride we will ride the cyclone soon. We will write this in April. We're gonna ride a cyclone in April. How about that? We'll ride that cyclone in April. So, and Deer Park's department, can we please fix these awesome little sh. These things shoot water. Can we please fix these? I understand it's a pain in the ass with all the sand and everything, but come on, it brought so much joy to the children. Anyway, good to see you, Darien. Welcome home back. I gotta kill, uh, I gotta kill about 40 minutes here, 43 minutes I got a kill. So, I said you

know what? I have batteries. I have batteries, so I could actually technically be on for another three hours. Um, but I gotta kill time until seven, so I said to myself, Let me just paste the boardwalk, hang out with y'all for a little bit here. Ariel from the urbanist, thanks for the shout-out, much appreciated. So, the minute he finished, I was like, Okay, now I could go on, let him finish, and then I'll come back on. Here's the bnb carousel. Let's see if we could see the lead horse here. Let's see if we can see the lead horse. I doubt it. No, it doesn't look that great. [Music] You cannot, we cannot see the Lincoln Centennial horse. It's a lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely piece of art, and these guys will party here until about one in the morning. It's warming up tonight. It's warming up tonight, and that dog is happy. That's a happy dog. [Music] All the luckiest dogs come to Coney. [Music]

island [Music] I probably won't be back in 39 minutes. [Music] Uh, what are you referring to, John? [Music] I think about, oh, the B&B carousel. Yes, it was. That was the one on Surf Avenue. That was the one that was next door to the, um, that was the one that was next door to the entrance to Luna Park. Yeah, the old B&B was. Luckily, that was saved, and a lot of the signage, too, was saved. And then they moved it over here to its beautiful carousel building and this brand new plaza called Steeplechase Plaza. And I don't know if it made money. I don't know if it makes money. I know it's like a nice little, you know, like a, it's like a nice thing that Zamperla and CAI Central Amusements International are doing for the Parks Department in New York City. Because after all, they do have a sweetheart deal for rent. Always a nice vibe in Coney, absolutely.

damn, he pounded on. He has been pounding all those drums for the last five hours. That's the only time I've only been here for that long. He's not getting tired. He must have really good calluses on his fingers there to drum like that all day, right? It doesn't make money, right? It still loses money. Yeah, that's what I figured. So they did it as a courtesy to the city. Mayor Bloomberg, then Mayor Bloomberg, loved the job Zam Perla did with Victorian Gardens in Central Park. That he was like, Hey, we got this guy Joe Sit over here down. And clearly, this clearly is how Bloomberg talks. He's like, Hey, we got this guy Joe Sit over here. He destroyed Astro Land. Now we got to make a new park. So thus, so that's 10 years now. I cannot believe it's been 10 years. Um, 10 years ago, Luna Park comes in and pretty much, I want to say Luna Park does a good job of bringing people back.

to Coney Island because then after that a lot more people started visiting Coney Island again. Well, Rec Room for a Dream. This is the neighborhood, Arlene. This is the neighborhood of Requiem for a Dream. Mariam, I think you're the most beautiful girl in the world. [Laughter] Mom gets a bad deal in there. It's a lot of sand on the boardwalk. All of a sudden, the wind blew it up here. The wind blew all this sand up here. Let's see if I could show you some art. Let's see if I could show y'all some art. And actually, wait, Jim, you're in the chat. Jim, Jim, I just noticed something that I haven't seen in decades. So, Coney Island. Jim is in the room. Coney Island Jim, one of the authorities, if not the authority of Coney Island history, ride history. Show them bench play flags. Like, what's bench plagues? I don't know what a bench plague is. A bunch of people not wearing a mask on.

sitting on a bench. No, I'm going to show Jim. I don't know. I don't know if Jim seen this. I don't know when is a freak bar open again for business. Well, normally during this time of year, the freak bar is only open on the weekends. But unfortunately, due to the COVID. Oh, the plaque. Oh, I didn't know there was a plaque. Okay. I didn't know they were bench plaques. I'll go back to the boardwalk. Let's just walk through this scary part here. We'll walk through the scary part for all the people just tuning in, walking the scary streets of Brooklyn right now, all dark and scary looking. There's one for Lula Budaris by the Wonder Wheel and one by Paul for Paul's daughter. Oh, gotta check that out. I never knew that. You know, Jim, I know you probably told me about that a million times, but so here, here to my, here to my left here. This is the Coney Island Art Walls, basically a zoning change, so the owner of this land is called Joe.

sit. He's waiting for a zone change so he could build a hotel here or something like that, but I don't think he ever got the zone change. The art walls have been slowly but surely deteriorating. Even though you go in here, some of the best street artists in the world are here. This is Lady Aco. I love this wall here, Lady Aiko, right there. Why didn't they put a ride in front of Wonder Wheel? Because it has a huge space. There are rides in front of the Wonder. Where's the whole kiddie park in front of the Wonder Wheel? There's a whole children's park in front of the Wonder Wheel. And then you got that big empty lot, which they're gonna build a serious ride there. Yeah, I'm going to show something. I'm going to show something I don't think you've seen before. This is Coney Allen's own Marie Roberts. I wish the lights were turned on. Sideshow dog may sideshow dog rest in.

peace, and then this is another. There's another big French artist here. This is a kashink. I'm surprised nobody's tagged this up yet. Here's kashink, and then we have a Ron English down there, but the Ron English has been destroyed. But look at this, Jim. I literally just noticed this after I got my slice from pizza on the run, and I literally have not seen this. I have not seen this in decades. I have not seen this facade in decades. Oh, it's the sky again. I've been trying to avoid this guy all night. There's a guy who's just yelling at people. He's literally yelling at nobody right now, that guy in the middle of the intersection, just yelling at himself. Yeah, look, look at this. Look, they took down the countdown clock. Have you seen this? I haven't seen this facade in years. It'll be covered again soon. Okay, look how vintage that is. That's been covered up by the countdown clock sign for I don't know how long, but this is where they had the hot dog.

eating contest this year was inside this part of Nathan's. The back of the building is quite a large warehouse, so they turned it into a TV studio. How vintage is that? That's like 80s. That's like 80s 80s font there. New countdown clock coming. Okay, good because the last countdown clock malfunctioned. Well, everyone loves the countdown clock, John. You know they had the countdown clock on there. And what is up with everyone yelling around here right now? There are quite a lot of angry people out here right now. I don't know what's going on. I feel safer. I feel safer going down the darkened alleyways. Let's go down to darkened um Bowery street here. The old one went in the late 80s. It had a good life. Yes. What are they counting down? They're counting down until July 4th for the next hot dog eating contest. Yeah, they should love the sound of those trains when everyone goes warriors. That's Coney Island. I don't know why people are saying that.

Anyway, we're here in Coney Island. That's why you say warriors. So right here, this is Thor Equities' building here that houses its sugar. This is the site where the old Henderson Theater used to be, and this is where Groucho and Harpo Marx first performed together. Kind of amazing. But now, let's go down the Bowery and see the darkened Bowery with the cyclone off in the distance. Look at this now. We've how many, I don't know how many live streams I've done from right here, and it's like crazy crowded and people everywhere. Good to see you there, Rob. I got to kill 30 minutes here. I got to kill a half-hour time here. My good friend, the great Patrick of Coney Island USA, he's out in the Bronx getting some supplies, and it's taking him a little bit longer to procure his supplies. So I'm out here killing time, and while we kill time, we may have a

special guest join us because she's gonna have to kill time with me. This is the warrior shot. Yes, this is the warrior shot. They're walking right, well, they're actually walking the opposite direction. They're walking towards me in the movie, but this is the shot and where we just were on the boardwalk. When we came off the boardwalk there, that was where Stout's bathhouse was, and that building was the building that they had like the warriors spray-painted on the front. I don't know why I have the hiccups all of a sudden. There we go. And here it is, the 100-year-old Wonder Wheel, 400,000 pounds of Bethlehem steel. 144 people could ride it at any given time. It's a naturally socially distanced ride. And I did not know this because Coney Island Jim told me this. It's perfectly aligned with north, south, east, and west, so it's perfectly on that east-west line. Kind of amazing warriors [Music] with the moon above it. The moon, the

giver of life, the giver of death, the one, the only, the moon. There it is, and then here in this big lot. I know what's gonna happen here. Can't really, I actually, it's probably a stream buried in my list that you could find where I tell you what's gonna happen here. I won't tell you now, but something amazing is gonna happen right here in that newly acquired lot, newly acquired by the Vuderas family. This used to be where the breakdancer was. I'm sorry, the art, the Polar Express was. Polar Express was here, and a bunch of other rides like the ghost hole used to be here. I'm breaking your heart, I'm sorry. You will be out here, you'll be out here. Good to see you there, Norm, out there in Bangor, Pennsylvania. Welcome. Soon that vintage neon will be turned on, shining, and then we'll be able to get close-up to the Spook-a-Rama mural that the great Danielle Mastron made. The great Danielle Maestro made a lot of

stuff she made that she made this. She made the. She made that up there because she used to play that game a lot as a kid. They're like they paint on the floor. We got some stuff on the floor. They told her but she more importantly last winter and it's not complete yet last winter. She was redoing the inside of the historic spook-o-rama from 1955. Sooner or later it's pretty much already there but coney island is quickly becoming danielle's gal outdoor gallery because there's so much of her work all over the park. Was the first thunderbolt faster than the cyclone? That's a good question jim. Do you know that? That's a good question. I've always been told that the thunderbolt was a better ride. I know it's one year older but I don't know which one was faster than this. I don't know which one was faster. Her work is awesome. She has the biggie smalls over there in a bushwick collective and

she's so talented. No, it was not okay. Interesting. That's the authority. Coney Island gymnasium 30. He knows where to find all the... Oh, Thunderbolt was two years older than the Cyclone. Oh, okay. I thought there was only one year. Look at that halo around the moon. Very nice. As people think I'm talking to myself, I'm talking into a candy bar right now, looking completely crazy on the boardwalk. There you go. Thunderbolt was only 70 feet. So, Cyclone was faster. Okay, so Cyclone's 85 feet. I never knew how tall the Thunderbolt was. Now I want to see. I want to show you guys the plaques, but it is crazy dark. Oh, there we go. Thunderbolt was 1925. The Tornadoes was 1926. And the Cyclone was 1927. Thank you so much, Jim. Let's see. Does this have a plaque on it? No plaque on this one. Jim always got the stats. Good to see you there, Dave. Welcome.

let's go to the next bench as the children scream. Children screaming. Children always make me more resolute and proud of the fact that I never want to have children. I'm too selfish. Oh, I think this is the plaque. Oh, I've never seen this before. Look at this, folks. Oh, this is nice. There we go. This bench is dedicated to the memory of Dinos and Lula Budaris. Their love and generosity still inspires the Coney Island community, and I cannot agree more. This is just like the Central Park, has the same similar designs to the Central Park ones. Ah, so cool. Let's go to the other plaque. So basically, Dino told his wife when visiting Coney Island one day, Like, I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna buy you the biggest ring. And he points to the wheel. And in 1983, he actually is able to buy the Wonder Wheel. And it's, and the Budaris, they're a lovely, lovely, they're a real family. They're a real Coney Island family. They're so nice, so giving. They were, they were actually

using their 3D printer in the basement there in the workshop of Wonder Wheel Park, and they were making PPE for our first responders. That's beautiful. Oh, she's walking over the great Danielle Mastron is here. She's gonna have to kill time with me, so let's quickly look at this other plaque. I've never noticed these plaques before. David Weinberg, November 20, November 2nd, 1943, passed away on July 6, 1995. Always missed and loved by Sharon, Robin, Eileen. Capturing our eternal perfect view. I have to agree with that. All right, Danielle's gonna have to kill time with me, so let's go. Let's go back over to my second home here, Coney Island, USA. I'm gonna have to tell her the news, but more kind of fun. Maybe she could talk about her mural that she painted down there. We'll have a little discussion, and I'm going to have to get coffee. Cyclone is very lucky, absolutely.

they tried to tear down the Cyclone in 1912. In 1975, they tried to tear down the Cyclone. Need want anything? No, I'm good. But yeah, we almost lost the Cyclone because there were people who decided they're going to move across the street from the Cyclone, and then they complained about the Cyclone's noise. I mean, geniuses, just geniuses. Oh, we got an undercover squad car over here. Like, who's driving on the... who's driving a black car and just... who's having an old black car on the boardwalk? Oh, NYPD. Okay, NYPD. And my PD eyeballing me right now. Like, what is he doing? What are you doing with that? Why are you talking to a candy bar on the stick? Oh, you're looking for a candy bar on a stick. What are you doing? What was he doing there? All right, let's go down over. Yeah, actually, Danielle touched up the paint on some of these rides here too, so when you come out here to Coney, you

are literally amongst all of her work. Me too, crack baby. I hope everything gets back to normal next year too. Wow, really? The Crystal Beach, Ontario cyclone built in 1920 is 96 feet tall. That is really tall for a roller coaster from 1920. That thing must fly. Is that ride still standing? That's a subway train. What is that? A Q train arriving right now. Oh, that's probably the train that Danielle's on right now. She's just since she said she's here. All right, whoever cleaned up the mess. Somebody. Oh, the mess is still here. Somebody. Somebody dropped off a bunch of household garbage all around the amusement district. So weird. It's like clearly somebody's apartment, somebody's home contents have been strewn about along West 12th and Stillwell Avenue. What do we have here? What do we have here? A motorcycle. Oh, they're. Are they still filming that movie? Somebody's filming a movie here right now, and they're doing funny little

like skits and stuff, so they might, they might be that maybe for the movie film, the gorilla shoot film, shoot here. This is the kind of night when you don't need them, you don't need a filming permit because there's nobody here. Off of the distance, these are called the Luna Park houses, and that's, that is of course where Luna Park used to be. Luna Park, the second big of the three amusement parks here in Coney Island, Diego Crystal Beach Cyclone, was demolished in 1947. Much of the structure resumed as for the comet, for the Crystal Beach comet. Interesting, oh, they moved it to Lake George, so Crystal Beach comet is in Lake George. As we learn about roller coaster history here on the live stream, at least we're not talking about food. Let me give my nose a good wipe here before I put on my, my mask. All right, there we go. Oh, masked up. Oh, somebody in the theater. Oh, somebody's in the theater. Oh, they're working in the theater.

We have more lights turned on. All right, this is good. Let's see if the door's open. Oh yeah, everybody's here. Everybody's here. Yay, the family has assembled. The family is here. This is good. All right, let's see. We'll say hello to Linda, who was saying hello to Danielle. Time to make holes, exactly. Time to make some holes in the wall. I don't see Patrick's truck yet. I don't see his truck. But if she comes here right now, we're gonna see the artist who made this. I'm gonna show you guys. Do I know? Of course, I know about the switchback railway. What do you want to know about it? What do you want to know about the switchback? That was the, uh, it wasn't the first roller coaster, because the first roller coaster was the Lamarcus Thompson Scenic Railway. Or what was that? The other name they also gave it. Oh, '89 was a great time. Absolutely, 1989 was a great time. Who remembers Philip's Candy Store?

there at the entrance to the subway station. Good to see you, Stuart. Welcome here on Surf Avenue, next to the Popeyes and the elder. These are not called bumper scooters, he says. These are auto scooters, up bumper cars. I go auto scooters, where you bump your ass off. Was it very long? I don't know the length of the switchback railway. And uh, I want to say it was a couple of thousand feet long, but it wasn't too like, it wasn't like, oh my god, it's crazy, crazy long. Ah, scenic railway came. Let's see, I'm getting messed up. See, so the city railway came later. Okay, so it was a switchback. Okay, yeah, John Lore remembers his Phillips. That's right, you got the free cookie. You got the free cookie at Phillips. That is correct. That's what made it so great. And now Phillips is now on Staten Island, on Forest Avenue, if I'm not mistaken, on Forest Avenue, literally in the middle of the borough. Yes, I'm like tempted. Should I get coffee?

drove a bus, drove the mermaid bus, and the place was to get a place to get coffee. What's on tonight? Good to see you, Gaza. So, we're just rambling about here. I'm just killing some time before I go to work. I thought I was supposed to be working right now, but taking a little longer than expected. Oh, I could see Danielle from here. Wait, I can see Danielle from here. Let me uh, she got, she was on that Q train. She was totally on that Q train. All right, let's walk over to the good, the guy screaming is gone. Good, there's Nathan's 100 years old and just for, there you go, for all you bus drivers out there. The B36 next to the locker room will be higher and faster than what? Oh, the new log flume? Yes, the new locker room will be taller and a bit bigger and better than the Wild River. But if you go to Costa Rica, you could ride the Wild River today. Just

got to go to Costa Rica. Switchback is often credited as the first 1884, but it's not, and it was 600 feet long. All right, so that's really not that long. Long. Oh, maybe that's not Danielle, our beautiful brand new station here. So let's see. Oh, I know everything's closed. I'm a tour guide. Um, so Jim, which pictures did you take here? Do you take all of them? I think I have a feeling Jim took every single picture in this poster right here. And thanks to Jim, it's called the flywheel. Like, what should we name this restaurant? Uh, something cyclone-related. And Jim's like, flywheel. And thus, it's been named flywheel ever since. Aren't they having fun? Aren't they having a hoot? And then they gotta update this because they got the, uh, they got the old restaurant here that doesn't exist anymore. We got the old restaurant here. Good luck kitchen 21. Good luck kitchen 21. You all are horrible. You're all horrible.

oh come, come get a kiss. All right, I think I just walked right past it, or Danny. I think we just both passed each other, so I'm gonna go inside. I'm gonna go inside now under the station. Correct, the B74 stops there. The B16 stops there. All right, guys, thank you so much for killing time with me. Tomorrow, I'm going to be in Manhattan, and we're gonna ramble about the village. We're gonna, um, we're gonna, and we're gonna hopefully end up in the East Village, and we're gonna see a concert, a concert on a fire escape. So, that's right, a concert on the fire escape. I should be on tomorrow around three o'clock Eastern time, so think around three o'clock, but make sure to follow me on Instagram or on Twitter, and I usually give you guys like a 90-minute, two-hour warning. You'll be there good, yeah. Back then, Coney Island was extreme, very different. Yes, it was, but from Surf Avenue here in Coney Island way as uh

As the speed camera flashes, this is Touch My Signing Off. Do me a favor, have a great Coney Island day, whether you live here or not. I want you to hug your loved ones, I want you to cherish the moments, and one more time, good night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. I'll see you guys mañana, kind of warm up, it's getting cold out here. I'll see you guys later, and it will be sweet. Thanks for all the new subscribers. Don't forget to hit that notification bell because I don't know when I'm going to go on next. I keep it loose, I keep it kind of random. 99 folks, you

🔴 NYC Live: The Coney Island Boardwalk at Night

🔴 NYC Live: The Coney Island Boardwalk at Night